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unusual facts about Geelong Football Club


Beyondblue

Since 2006, the Australian Football League has supported the organisation with the beyondblue Cup awarded annually to the winner of clashes between the Geelong and Hawthorn football clubs.


1924 Brownlow Medal

The 1924 Brownlow Medal was awarded to Edward 'Carji' Greeves of Geelong, who was adjudged to have been the best and fairest player during the 1924 Victorian Football League home and away season.

1938 VFL season

Geelong half-back flanker Jack Grant won the 1938 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and eleven-sixteenths seconds, off a handicap of 11½ yards.

Aberfoyle Park High School

Brenton Sanderson – coach of Adelaide Crows (2012 - present) and former Australian rules footballer for Adelaide (1992 – 1993), Collingwood (1994) and Geelong (1995 – 2005).

David Hynes

From 1992 to 1995 he played finals football every year, including West Coast's 1994 AFL Grand Final win over Geelong.

Dermott Brereton

In 2005, he appeared in a Toyota Memorable Moments advertisement featuring Stephen Curry that satirised the famous 1989 Grand Final incident with Geelong player Mark Yeates.

Jon Hassall

A tagger, Hassall played at Collingwood mostly in the back pocket or midfield and received a 1994 AFL Rising Star nomination for his efforts against Geelong late in his debut season.

Kevin Sheehan

Kevin Vincent Sheehan OAM (born 1 August 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer for Geelong and the current Australian Football League (AFL) National Talent and International Manager, a member of the AFL football operations sub-committee and a selector for the AFL Rising Star award.

Ron Watt

In September 2012 Watt, the Geelong Football Clubs' player development manager, announced his intention to stand for the historical first ever directly elected Mayor of Geelong.

Shayne Breuer

Breuer started at Geelong and played every game in Geelong's AFL Grand Final years of 1994 and 1995, having 50 games on the board after only two seasons.


see also

Jeff Gieschen

In 1995 and 1996 he was assistant coach for the Geelong Football club which included a grand final appearance in the former season.

Old Geelong

Old Geelong Football Club, aka 'The Ogs' are an amateur Australian Rules Football team competing in Division One of the Victorian Amateur Football Association.

Whiskas

In 1998, Australian rules footballer Garry Hocking changed his name by deed poll to "Whiskas" as part of the Geelong Football Club promotion with the company.